A native camp near Cockle Bay, New South Wales, with a View of Parramatta River. Taken from Dawes's Point.
Title
Source
Views in New South Wales. Sydney: West, 1813
Page or Plate number
plate 8
Reference
Ferguson (1941-69, 1986), 570a
Date made
1812
Place made
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia View on map Close map
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
engraving, printed in black ink, from one copper plate
Matrix size
22.9 x 36.7 cm (printed image)
Support
paper
Support size
31.6 x 46.3 cm (sheet)
Manufacturers mark
no manufacturer's mark
State
published state
Impression
undesignated impression as issued
Edition information
print run unknown
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
144089
Accession number
2005.291.8
Accession method
Purchase
Meeting
Meeting 6, 2004/2005 (2005-06-22)
Provenance
With Horden House, Sydney. This image was one of fourteen offered as a boxed set in: Governor Lachlan Macquarie. An important collection of rare books, manuscripts and pictorial works focussing on Macquarie's reign as Governor 1810-1822, Sydney: Hordern House, 1996, cat. no. 60. Private collection, Sydney. Purchased by the Australian National Gallery, from Horden House, Sydney, 2005
Credit line
Purchased 2004
Subject categories
Australia, Art period: Colonial, New South Wales | Aboriginal Australians
Country of context
Australia
Creators
Slager, Philip. | (1755–1815) Australian | English | Male | engraver
Eyre, John. | (1771–1812) English | Male | print after
West, Absalom. | (1795–) Australian | English | Male | publisher
Last Updated
28 Jul 2023